In the Game with Damian Barrett - an AFL podcast
Summary: He’s footy’s number one newsbreaker, always at the coalface of the biggest stories in the game. Damian Barrett goes behind the scenes and inside the stories and minds of football's most influential figures. An Australian Football League production.
Podcasts:
In 30 years as CEO of two highly successful AFL clubs, Brian Cook has seen and lived more than most in football. There's been stunning success, a few setbacks and a lot of tough conversations with a lot of people. In this episode of In the Game he lets us in on some key facets of that football journey.
A long established leader in the indigenous community, Jodie Sizer is now leading as a director of the Collingwood Football Club. In this episode of In the Game she addresses the sensitive subject of racism head-on, sharing her vast experiences and expressing the need for truth-telling and education.
A young captain at 21, young coach at 34, and a still young assistant coach at 43... wanting to be a senior coach again. Michael Voss' extraordinary journey through football has had some amazing highs and some painful lows, but throughout it all he has always maintained his class. And he's never lost his hunger for competition.
There are so many layers to Patrick Dangerfield, and he's got strong views on all the big issues, including the media. Having already put together an all-time great AFL career, he still craves a whole lot more. And he will seek to get it... his way.
When Andrew Krakouer was 11, his football famous dad didn't come home one day... sentenced to jail. Fourteen years later, Andrew himself didn't come home for his own daughters... he too sentenced to jail. Andrew Krakouer has lived the lows of having a prison door slammed shut on his freedom, and also the highs of kicking three goals in an AFL Grand Final. Forever regretful of his actions, he has never shirked responsibility of them. Here he tells his incredible story of support, love, family and belonging.
Good things happen to businesses when Andrew Bassat gets involved - St Kilda football club the latest venture to benefit. One of Australia's most astute, wealthy and connected businessmen, the founder of job search company Seek is now president of the Saints. He's got very big plans, and some big St Kilda names are part of those plans.
King-hit and bloodied off the field, and sacked by Carlton on it... it was, for all the wrong reasons, a big 2014 for Mitch Robinson. But that ugly period has ultimately shaped him into a well-balanced and now crucial member of a resurgent Brisbane Lions. In this episode of In The Game, Robinson touches on how he lost sight from that king-hit, becoming the Lions resident barber, why the door to his house is always open to teammates, how he's learnt to deal with ADHD, and his special talents as a recruiter.
Perspective. Collingwood footballer Josh Thomas has it. And he got it the hard way. A two-year ban in early 2015 - after inadvertently taking a performance-enhancing substance during a night out with mates - forcing him down an unintended path. In this episode of In The Game you'll learn how Thomas has emerged from his saga, both a better footballer... and a better person.
Now Melbourne's co-captain, Jack Viney experienced a baptism of fire in just his second AFL game. In conversation with AFL.com.au's Damian Barrett, Viney reflects on the bitter memory of that 148-point hiding from Essendon - a defeat that sparked a "terrifying" response from the Demon faithful. The pair also discuss crashing through pain, and Viney's experiment with intermittent fasting.
From starting his own career as a 16-year-old through to coaching the Swans to a premiership, John Longmire has packed a lot in. Here he talks of the learnings from winning and losing Grand Finals, his mateship with Alastair Clarkson, and how it always hurts to tell a player that his career is finished.
West Coast premiership coach Adam Simpson takes Damian Barrett inside the Eagles' world of mateship, spirit, unity, family-first approach, messing up pre-game speeches and the exact moment he knew he had a premiership capable team.
AFL Players' Association CEO Paul Marsh goes behind the scenes with Damian Barrett to discuss cricket's integrity problems, footy's pressing issues, Adam Goodes' final AFL season, illicit drugs and and a night Grand Final.
Richmond CEO Brendon Gale has famously turned around the fortunes of the Tigers during his 10 years in charge. He tells dual Alf Brown Trophy winner Damian Barrett how.
Eight days after lifting Collingwood from 13th in 2017 to a narrow loss in the 2018 Grand Final, coach Nathan Buckley packed up his family and took off for an extended break in Europe. He tells dual Alf Brown Trophy winner Damian Barrett why.
